EBarnacle -

You're apparently still using one of the old versions (or not doing anything very complex?).

After 20+ years using Word, I was finally forced to install the new Office 2007. The menus are such a mess that for the first time I'm now using keystrokes to the almost total exclusion of trying to find anything useful in the menus. Previously, I only looked up the keyboard shortcuts for a few "special things."

The problem is that the keystroke methods still work for menus that NO LONGER EXIST in the new version, so there are no "hints" on how to complete the most useful commands once you start one. But remembering a 7 stroke keyboard sequence from an earlier version still beats consulting five separate menus, boring down three levels deep in each, to complete a what used to be a two-step operation.

No criticism of your methods, of course, as long as they do what you want to do.

John